Tecumseh

Tecumseh (/tɛˈkʌmsə/; March 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy (known as Tecumseh's Confederacy) which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and the War of 1812. Tecumseh has become an iconic folk hero in American, Aboriginal and Canadian history.Tecumseh grew up in the Ohio Country during the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War, where he was constantly exposed to warfare. With Americans continuing to encroach on Indian territory after the British ceded the Ohio Valley to the new United States in 1783, the Shawnee moved farther northwest. In 1808, they settled Prophetstown in present-day Indiana.

… by Native Americans in 1769, and was used by them in negotiations with Europeans. Prominent figures like Sitting Bull and Tecumseh referred to themselves as “red men” or “redskins,” and the logo—designed in 1971—was created in consultation with Native American leaders. “We’re simply interested in presenting historical evidence to fair-minded opinion…